# Google, I love you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833 "2007-04-27T05:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/21 "2007-04-28T05:48:51Z")
[QUOTE=Ruby] I love you, man. [/QUOTE] [Google] You’re not getting my beer, **Ruby**. [/Google] ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/22 "2007-04-29T00:54:17Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] [Google] You’re not getting my beer, **Ruby**. [/Google] [/QUOTE] hmpf. That’s what they all say… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/23 "2007-04-29T01:04:35Z")
I love that I can search an address - all one line, none of this tabbing to enter street, then city, then state, blah blah blah, and it gives me a little map AND website hits! And if I click the little map, I can get directions! Without going to Mapquest! I \<3 Google. ---
**Author:** ![Barrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/24 "2007-04-29T14:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] I love that I can search an address - all one line, none of this tabbing to enter street, then city, then state, blah blah blah, and it gives me a little map AND website hits! [/QUOTE] It doesn’t work so well outside of the USA. According to Google Maps, I live in the back seat of a car travelling along the street two doors away from here. This is untrue, and misrepresents my life in a manner which I find distasteful and offensive. Seriously, though, it’s a major innovation, and something that no-one could have predicted even a few years ago. Major kudos to the technology and to Google. ---
**Author:** ![Barrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/25 "2007-04-29T14:53:49Z")
Double-post - the boards burped again. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/26 "2007-04-29T15:42:51Z")
[QUOTE=Barrington] Double-post - the boards burped again. [/QUOTE] Too bad the Straight Dope Message Board isn’t run by Google! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/27 "2007-04-30T06:25:59Z")
Google accounts for about 80% of my income, so I have to love it. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/28 "2007-04-30T12:41:48Z")
[QUOTE=Gukumatz] Are you trying to say you’re doing AOL Search on the side? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Ew! I wouldn’t search AOL with _your_ query-string. > [@AuntiePam](#): > > What else does it do? In addition to numerous conversions, you can also search for “answer to life the universe and everything”. It gives the correct answer. (This is funniest if you’re familiar with the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.) Also, I did a search for “real estate” and the name of my hometown the other day, since I’m in the market for a house. Apparantly there’s a Google Housing search now! It’s actually rather good. It lists houses (and other real estate) on the left and shows you a Google Maps thingy on the right with the locations of the houses marked. It’s very neat. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - if Google were a woman, I’d totally hit that. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/29 "2007-04-30T13:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=BlackKnight] In addition to numerous conversions, you can also search for “answer to life the universe and everything”. It gives the correct answer. [/QUOTE] Wowsers. Well, that just made my day. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/30 "2007-04-30T20:20:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Wowsers. Well, that just made my day. Ditto! I didn’t know google had that. nifty! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/31 "2007-05-01T05:28:38Z")
I’ve pretty much stopped using dictionaries; instead I just type define: word into Google. (Especially nice if I need a refresher course of the meaning of something like “principle of subsidiarity,” which in my line of work I regularly do.) Google also catches plaigerizing a lot of the time. Recently I got a lot of credit from a company I was doing a project for – they were quite impressed that I noticed that someone they’d hired to write an original piece had pretty much just cribbed it from something he’d done earlier. I was a little surprised at their awe, actually. My feeling for Google goes beyond mere love. I think I stalk Google. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/32 "2007-05-01T06:06:12Z")
_Why is Google i\*Google tonight?_\* ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/33 "2007-05-01T08:18:54Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] _Why is Google i\*Google tonight?_\* [/QUOTE] There isn’t the usual explanatory mouseover, and it only seems to be on the personalized home page so I’m guessing there might be a bit of an Apple-baiting rebrand going on. I did note that in the “New stuff” section of the homepage gadgets, there is a link to a gadget that points to the Windows applications section of a very well known torrent site. Currently this gadget (which I added purely for testing purposes) is offering a cracked version of Office 2007. I can’t understand how Google allowed this onto their site! ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/34 "2007-05-01T08:40:04Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] There isn’t the usual explanatory mouseover, and it only seems to be on the personalized home page so I’m guessing there might be a bit of an Apple-baiting rebrand going on. [/QUOTE] [Seems I was in the right ballpark.](http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6180365.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/35 "2007-05-01T13:50:41Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Google accounts for about 80% of my income, so I have to love it. [/QUOTE] So Google buys your love? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/36 "2007-05-01T14:39:26Z")
In case you haven’t seen it yet, have Google Maps do driving directions from New York to Paris. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/37 "2007-05-01T14:47:29Z")
[QUOTE=Pleonast] In case you haven’t seen it yet, have Google Maps do driving directions from New York to Paris. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but you have to swim to get there. If you look for New York to Moscow, the street names in Moscow are in Cyrillic. I lurves me some Google. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833/38 "2007-05-01T17:26:49Z")
Google lovefest? Count me in. 🆒 I’ve been using Google Calendar as my homepage at work for a couple of months, but then this morning I saw a headline about iGoogle. After doing a quick faceplant for having forgotten all about my customized Google portal, I proceeded to waste way too much time adding gadgets and organizing stuff and making it my new home page. And I’m not done tweaking it yet, because I’m still adding gadgets to duplicate all of the info I’ve been getting via MyWay and My Yahoo. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-i-love-you/401833.md?page=1)